Is there a way to produce random addresses that are country specific?

[tLashbrooke]

Trying to generate addresses unique to the UK i.e. country can only be England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland. Counties seems to work. The code I'm using is below, but it's printing out random country names in English

var LocalAddress = new Bogus.DataSets.Address(locale: "en_GB");
            var Name = new Bogus.DataSets.Name(locale: "en_GB");

            this.FirstName = Name.FirstName();
            this.LastName = Name.LastName();

            this.Country = LocalAddress.Country();
            this.County = LocalAddress.County();

            this.HouseNumber = LocalAddress.BuildingNumber();
            this.StreetName = LocalAddress.StreetName();
            this.City = LocalAddress.City();

            this.PostCode = LocalAddress.ZipCode();`

[bchavez]

Hi Thomas,

It looks like the faker.js en_GB countries don't tie into any of the normal/main APIs that faker.js exposes.

https://github.com/bchavez/Bogus/blob/4f65c5e108e9b9c9a11ea5a6e9b5445696825202/Source/Bogus/data/en_GB.locale.json#L76-L87

I think you'll have to resort to using the following workaround:

void Main()
{
   var f = new Faker("en_GB");

   var country = f.Address.UkCountry();
   country.Dump();

   var country2 = f.Address.UkCountry2();
   country2.Dump();
}

public static class AddressExtensionsForUk
{
   public static string UkCountry(this Bogus.DataSets.Address address)
   {
      var countries = new [] {
         "England",
         "Scotland",
         "Wales",
         "Northern Ireland"
       };

      return address.Random.ArrayElement(countries);
   }

   public static string UkCountry2(this Bogus.DataSets.Address address){

      var array = Database.Get(nameof(address), "uk_country", "en_GB") as BArray;
      return address.Random.ArrayElement(array);
   }
}

Hope that helps!

Thanks, Brian

[bchavez]

Hi Thomas,

Added Address.CountryOfUnitedKingdom() extension method in Bogus.Extensions.UnitedKingdom.

The following code now works in Bogus v30.0.3: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Bogus/30.0.3

using Bogus.Extensions.UnitedKingdom;

void Main()
{
   var f = new Faker("en_GB");
   var uk_country = f.Address.CountryOfUnitedKingdom();

   uk_country.Dump();
}

Update to v30.0.3 and give it try. Let me know how it goes! I hope that helps!

Thanks, Brian

[tLashbrooke]

Awesome! Thanks for your help 👍